February 7, 2023
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Author: Kevin Nelson

Kevin Nelson is a writer and author.  He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, California Weekly and many other publications.

Charles Swanston’s Headless Rancher Statue is a Casualty of War

January 4, 2023   11:25 amJanuary 4, 2023   2:15 pm
Rekindling ugly memories of the summer of 2020 when anarchist vandals burned and desecrated public memorials across America, the statue of a California rancher had its head cut off in a Sacramento park the day after Christmas. No one yet...
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They Did Their Jobs at Pearl Harbor, and We Are All the Better For It

December 7, 2022   2:00 amDecember 6, 2022   5:58 pm
The war that changed everything began at 7:55 a.m. on December 7, 1941, when a Japanese strike force launched a devastating surprise attack on the sleeping men and ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Now that...
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While California Burns, Politicians Fiddle: One Rancher’s Story

November 30, 2022   10:33 amDecember 1, 2022   8:31 am
If Hollywood was looking to cast a real-life rancher for a part in the hit western series “Yellowstone,” Dave Daley would be a prime candidate. He’s as real as a rancher gets. A fifth generation Butte County cattleman, his family...
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Why Do So Many Californians Still Wear Masks?

October 20, 2022   11:22 amOctober 21, 2022   6:49 am
The other day I saw a women in her late teens or early twenties walking her dog in a park near my home. She was fit and healthy-looking, getting some exercise on a lovely fall day in a quiet bayside...
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Two Words Explain California’s Wildfire Woes: Spotted Owl

October 13, 2022   10:41 amOctober 13, 2022   12:50 pm
Some things in life are hard to understand and explain. The theory of relativity, for example, or the origins of black holes. Other things are easy to grasp, however. Such as: California’s wildfire woes. In the past five years summer...
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Pelosi’s ‘Pickle’ Giving Democrats a Headache

July 17, 2022   2:32 amJuly 18, 2022   7:30 am
Nancy Pelosi is in a pickle. That’s an old-fashioned word that an online dictionary blandly defines as: “a difficult situation.” The Brits have added some relish to it by describing a person in trouble as being in “a pretty pickle.”...
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‘Playing the Fool’: Newsom’s Presidential Campaign Strategy

July 9, 2022   7:57 amJuly 11, 2022   1:52 pm
Gavin the Fool. Gavin the Jester. These are two of the gambits being used by California Governor Gavin Newsom in his early bid to sweep through re-election in November and then turn his sights on becoming the Democrat Party’s presidential...
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